[pkg-lynx-maint] Bug#791452: Bug#791452: lynx: http_proxy variable silently ignored!

[Andrew Valencia]

Code inspection leads me to LYUtils.c, routine is_url(), which calls
LYCheckForProxyURL() only if the URL type is not known.  HTTP, of course, is
known--thus it quietly ignores the proxy environment variable config.

If another dev has a proxy server ready to go, an interesting experiment
would be to move the proxy test to be done first in is_url().  But don't be
surprised if what you find is that this bug needs to be renamed "HTTP proxy
is broken".  I'll try and set up a proxy server RSN if nobody else is jumping
on this.

Andy Valencia

On 7/4/15, Nomen Nescio <nobody at dizum.com> wrote:
> Package: lynx
> Version: 2.8.9dev1-2
> Severity: important
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> The "http_proxy" variable is silently ignored!
> ...